I am interested in the uses and effects of media technologies on membership groups that have, for cultural or religious reasons, distanced themselves from such involvement. For example, has the introduction and proliferation of television cable systems and VCRs provided a diffusion of influence among membership groups that have generally been critical of television and film content? This question could be viewed from a uses and gratifications approach, a media effects analysis, and an organizational control study. Any comments, journal sources, insights? John Lepter University of Kentucky